René Girard is best known for his theory of ‘mimetic desire’. Now Peter Thiel and the vice-president are among his fans ...

A stupid term is still stupid even if someone else uses it stupidly.

In “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar,” James Miller offers an eclectic survey of the career of one of Spain’s greatest ...

Sens ta’ Ħarifa, Kurt Borg’s intimate and philosophical essay collection invites readers to embrace uncertainty, empathy, and ...

Mental illness is no longer a taboo in Bangladesh — but are we healing, or simply importing a foreign language of suffering? In ‘Crazy Like Us,’ Ethan Watters shows what happens when psychiatry ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

Unsurprisingly, in an era overwhelmed by information, we often find ourselves parroting what others say online instead of ...

Quarantines and the evacuation of places of disease have been standard measures globally to contain epidemics for centuries, ...

Following the brilliant books released in 2020 – and despite the impact of the current epidemic – English readers can look ...